Nutnfancy?

[pdugan6]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6jtNC1Wlvs

This is so funny though!! Pretty spot on.

[stormy_clothing]

Theres an old saying. take what you can get, until merc1138 makes 900 firearms videos about the same topics it's hard to give credit to any critiques

[Merc1138]

Except that being a pilot does not equate to firearm experience, he's also not a LEO.

[pdugan6]

his reviews do drag out quite a while but he is good IMO. He also serves this country in the Airforce and is LEO so I don't know about the mall ninja call. More legit than 90% of us on this site if talking about field xp.

[stormy_clothing]

It's pretty straight forward, dumbed down sells in America.

[Merc1138]

That's from a song called "Moment of Clarity"? Was it from an album called "Irony in da Hood" or something? That's a bunch of incoherent nonsense.

[stormy_clothing]

vs 2 of jay z's moment of clarity has all the wisdom you need to intrepret nutnfancy

And the music i be makin
I dumb down for my audience
And double my dollars
They criticize me for it
Yet they all yell "Holla"

[moneymaker88]

I think it is what it is. Entertainment. One guy having fun with his friends and family making some vids that he thinks might help some poeple. It's there for you to do with it what you want. You want technical buy a field manual or buy a guns and ammo. You want one guys OPINION watch this guy.

I checked out thid Hickok45. HORRIBLE It's like watching somebody's grandpa that has alzheimers run around shooting things. I watched about 8 vids. One he was wandering through a snow covered forest rambling incohenrently about band of brothers.

[Merc1138]

Looking for someone to argue with?

You've somehow missed the point.

You missed the point regarding what a product review should be. I don't give a flying **** about the guy's personal opinion on guns, I want facts and performance in a review. If your idea of "entertainment" is someone sitting behind a camera with a bulleted sheet of paper on the screen telling you how much a pistol weighs and giving wrong information regarding magazine capacity, then so be it. You can complain all you want about how I'm "hating", yet I've pointed out a multitude of flaws in the guy's videos and what his idea of a "review" is. Deal with it. If you cannot accept that not everyone holds the same opinion about some guy on youtube as you, why is it the rest of us with the problem?

I couldn't care less about the guy's personal life. If he wants to go running around in the desert shooting, whatever. But to present his own personal opinions about things as absolute facts, ignoring real data, and then blocking anyone who ever points out any inconsistencies or errors, is garbage. Yeah, you'll never see criticisms in any of the comments on his youtube page or videos, want to know why? He or his sister(I forget her name) deletes them all and then blocks the users. I've seen actual discussions occur between other people who post videos on youtube and the people who comment on their videos. This doesn't happen on nutnfancy's videos, so it appears to the less knowledgeable that he must be completely correct since it appears that no one is willing to question him or argue with him over anything ever in his videos.

[Plisk]

My opinion on him is:

When he's doing a video about a firearm or gear review, he does his some good point and shows some of the little downfalls, or hidden gem in features that you never see in advertising. The stuff you discover shortly after opening the box, or on your first day of use. All of his videos are unglodly long, so you can't really find a vid real quick for info, nor can you track around to a specific part in the video to try and find something. All you see are his hands 90% of the time.

When it comes to his concept reviews, (like his Sheepdog review) on some of them he hits on good points and his point of view is right, but he doesn't represent the idea he's representing HIS personal feelings and opinions on the matter. That's where there's a lot of misunderstandings and conflicts with how people see his videos. He makes his speeches too personal, and less informative. Like in the Sheepdop review, hes trying to describe the mindset of a sheepdog. He was trying to express it as, the natural need to help others regardless of consequence. How he represented it as, was that Sheepdogs only do such things for the glory of it. They want to be the one doing it because it's something important. You read between the lines and you get it, but at face value there are an endless amount of flaws with is reviews. The real problem are the people that understand it at face value and agree with it! If you agree with the concept, that's awesome. If you agree with him, you could be believing in something dangerous (like how his own feelings describe SHTF (or WROL) as something cool that you need to drop everything and prepare for, rather then a concept that we should be aware of).

His own credability gets worse as you dig into his past. He talks about his service in the Air Force. He was part of a Refueling Wing Unit. Sorry if I don't trust the gas pump guy to tell me what my ideal personal carry piece should be. He also hints to "his brothers in Law Enforcement". He was never an LEO, he was part of a local Neighborhood watch type organization in his town.

Personally to me, he's just a tool. I'll use his videos when I need a little first hand info on an item, but otherwise I don't care what he was to say. Don't take anything at face value folks remember what Reagan said "Trust, but verify." Verify who you get your info from.

[CALI SHOT DOC]

If you don't like him then don't watch him. I think his number of subscribers speak volumes and he does an all around review. He gets discounts for the TNPrs and puts in a lot of time in his vids. I love hickcock45 also but watching him shoot hundreds of rounds, showing off his skills gets old fast. I don't need to see him shoot the same plate rack 15 times in one vid. And i think he babbles more than nutnfancy. In his 3rd "radio" episode, the first 6 min of the vid was talking about keeping it short to 30 min and not trying to talk so long.....



Both are great at what they do. Both have flaws at what they do also.

[Dannicus]

If his technical data isn't correct, and some guns he "reviews" without even shooting, and if I don't know the shape/size of his hands, shoulders, etc. since ergonomics differ from person to person, what good does his 30 minute gun "review" video do for me?

Do you want to know what makes more sense? Putting the gun in my own hand at the shop, and manipulating the controls myself.

This guy doesn't do any sort of torture/reliability testing. He doesn't benchrest a gun to see how accurate it actually is. Heck, what about just taking it out of the box and putting 500-1000 rounds down the pipe to see what happens? Count any FTF or FTE, note if barrel fouling is unusually bad due to the rifling, does residue from shooting cover up the sight making it harder to see, what's the actual trigger pull weight instead of just what the factory put on their marketing materials?

Unless he's going to do things like I mentioned, it's not a "review", it's a powerpoint presentation(I'm not sure what's entertaining about that at all). You wouldn't pay any attention to a car review where the writer didn't actually drive the car would you?

ETA: Oh, and I even forgot about the blocking of people with any sort of constructive criticism. There has been times where people have posted text comments and even video responses, pointing out something he missed, or how he might be able to change something for the better, and he blocks them from ever viewing his channel again and deletes the comments. Yeah, that's real mature, right?

Looking for someone to argue with?

You've somehow missed the point.

[Merc1138]

Haters gonna hate.

IMO, Nutnfancy's stuff is good entertainment. He gives his opinion in a conversational manner on weapons and rarely fails to point out that others differ. He never claims to be a fountain of technical data. If you want that, then ur wrong for looking on youtube.

If his technical data isn't correct, and some guns he "reviews" without even shooting, and if I don't know the shape/size of his hands, shoulders, etc. since ergonomics differ from person to person, what good does his 30 minute gun "review" video do for me?

Do you want to know what makes more sense? Putting the gun in my own hand at the shop, and manipulating the controls myself.

This guy doesn't do any sort of torture/reliability testing. He doesn't benchrest a gun to see how accurate it actually is. Heck, what about just taking it out of the box and putting 500-1000 rounds down the pipe to see what happens? Count any FTF or FTE, note if barrel fouling is unusually bad due to the rifling, does residue from shooting cover up the sight making it harder to see, what's the actual trigger pull weight instead of just what the factory put on their marketing materials?

Unless he's going to do things like I mentioned, it's not a "review", it's a powerpoint presentation(I'm not sure what's entertaining about that at all). You wouldn't pay any attention to a car review where the writer didn't actually drive the car would you?

ETA: Oh, and I even forgot about the blocking of people with any sort of constructive criticism. There has been times where people have posted text comments and even video responses, pointing out something he missed, or how he might be able to change something for the better, and he blocks them from ever viewing his channel again and deletes the comments. Yeah, that's real mature, right?

[Dannicus]

Haters gonna hate.

IMO, Nutnfancy's stuff is good entertainment. He gives his opinion in a conversational manner on weapons and rarely fails to point out that others differ. He never claims to be a fountain of technical data. If you want that, then ur wrong for looking on youtube.

[RollingCode3]

Lol I'm pretty sure he wasn't special forces. I know hes in the Air Force though.

He seems like an all around good guy. Like others have said, he's long winded, but I like it. Gives me something to watch when I'm eating dinner in front of my computer, and he actually goes through a lot of talking points that a lot of reviewers don't.

Most people watch a review just to get a simple answer of "This product is good/bad, you should/should not buy it". Nutnfancy deviated from this black and white two dimensional reviewing method (that also makes for a very boring and uninformative video by the way), and he goes over a lot of aspects of a particular gun or piece of gear, and allows the viewer to make his/her own decision as to the value of a potential purchase. Nutnfancy will always leave his opinions and preferences on all of his reviews, but for the most part, I think he does an excellent job at staying objective and non-biased. Like he always says, your mileage with a particular product may vary. May work for you, and may not. His reviews are only to be taken as what he calls a data point, just another statistic for you to consider before making your purchase. A very valuable statistic in my opinion.

+1.... I love his videos on handgun reviews and SHOT show. Some people on this board get butt hurt over some guy on the internet. If you dont like his channel, then DONT WATCH IT. If you think you can do better, feel free to post a video and we will judge you.